Who is involved in organizing the World Summit?
The Summit began as an initiative of the 1998 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference when it was recognized that the gap between information ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ was increasing while at the same time telecommunications were playing an increasingly important role at the political, social and cultural level. The United Nations recognized a need to create cooperation among the various national and global initiatives fostering Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for development and adopted a resolution instructing ITU to take the lead role in the preparation of the Summit.
